Last week my son was on
Spring Break and it has been warming up so the local flea market
opened for the first time this past Friday so my son and I went to look around.
After seeing some of the nice finds by other bloggers I had some hope to find
anything reasonable.
We started at the open-air
flea market but because it was the first time opening
this year there were only a handful of vendors and none were selling cards. What
added to the miserable offerings was that it was windy and the market has dirt
roads so the dust was everywhere and we felt gritty afterwards. After that we
hit a thrift store, nothing card-wise, and then an indoor flea market, a couple
of way over priced “vintage” cards.
There is only one sports
card shop listed in town so we hit that next, I had some hope that I would
finally have an LCS. We got there and calling it a card shop was being overly
ambitious. It was an antique store with a corner allocated to cards. There was
a 4-ft glass cabinet with some older cards, a couple of shelves with junk wax
era boxes and a couple of recent flagship Topps factory sets and finish with
some team themed boxes behind the counter. A huge disappointment.
I will probably go to
the flea market from time to time because you never know what you will find but
there are no other options in town besides Walmart and Target and I don’t feel
like wasting money on blasters.
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